Dept. of Lists
Jul. 16th, 2009 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timMore from Kroger:
"Investigators have discovered, for example, that in 1992, Morgan Stanley's managing director of corporate finance secretly instructed his firm's analysts to 'make no negative comments about our clients.' More recently investigators discovered that Merrill Lynch was publicly touting client stocks in positive research reports even though its analysts privately described the same companies in internal e-mails as 'junk,' 'shit,' and 'crap.'"
(This demonstrates the value of simple data mining techniques! I bet you can discover a lot just by grepping for swear words. The same is true for comments in source code.)
"Investigators have discovered, for example, that in 1992, Morgan Stanley's managing director of corporate finance secretly instructed his firm's analysts to 'make no negative comments about our clients.' More recently investigators discovered that Merrill Lynch was publicly touting client stocks in positive research reports even though its analysts privately described the same companies in internal e-mails as 'junk,' 'shit,' and 'crap.'"
(This demonstrates the value of simple data mining techniques! I bet you can discover a lot just by grepping for swear words. The same is true for comments in source code.)